Install on Linux - adrg/libvlc-go GitHub Wiki

Debian based distributions

On Debian based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), all dependencies can be installed using APT.

sudo apt-get install libvlc-dev
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-base
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-video-output

If you encounter any issues with the video or audio playback, try installing the vlc package as well.

sudo apt-get install vlc

If you need screen recording capabilities, install the vlc-plugin-access-extra package.

sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-access-extra

RPM based distributions

Fedora

Download latest rpmfusion-free-release-stable RPM from http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora.

# Install `rpmfusion-free-release-stable` RPM.
rpm -Uvh rpmfusion-free-release-stable*rpm

# Install `vlc-devel` RPM package.
dnf install vlc-devel

CentOS 8

dnf --enablerepo=raven-multimedia install vlc-devel

CentOS 7

Download latest nux-dextop-release RPM from http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64.

# Install `nux-dextop-release` RPM.
rpm -Uvh nux-dextop-release*rpm

# Install `vlc-devel` RPM package.
yum install vlc-devel

Other

Search for the vlc-devel package on pkgs.org. Select the newest vlc-devel package version available for your operating system. Installation instructions should be available on the package page.